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AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese
Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the […]
Azure – Placement polices now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update, the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for […]
Azure – Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time […]
GCP – How to investigate high tail latency when using Cloud Spanner
When you use Cloud Spanner, you may encounter some high tail latency cases. Some of the causes may be on the Cloud Spanner side, but there could be some other reasons as well. In this blog post, we will talk about how to distinguish the high latency causes and also talk about some tips to […]
GCP – Four security trends for ‘22—and what to do about them
When it comes to cloud security, 2022 will be the year that the past catches up with the future. Trends that businesses have been ignoring for too long will force organizations large and small to confront and control their security debt. That’s according to Google Cloud’s own cybersecurity experts, who have identified four security trends […]
GCP – Why 2021 was an electrifying year for 24/7 carbon-free energy
For those working on large-scale solutions to climate change, 2021 has been a noteworthy year. At Google, we are coming to the end of our first full calendar year since we announced our goal of operating on 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) at all of our data centers, cloud regions and campuses worldwide by 2030. We’re […]
GCP – In case you missed it: Google Cloud Security Talks, Zero Trust Edition
Yesterday we held our final Google Cloud Security Talks event of 2021. Our event focused on zero trust and covered everything from Google’s history with BeyondCorp to our strategic thinking when it comes to applying zero trust principles to production environments. We shared product updates across the portfolio and talked about how zero trust fits […]
GCP – Discovery leads innovation in media and entertainment through dynamic workplace transformation
In the past two decades, Discovery has moved from a purely cable business based in the U.S. to a global media and entertainment powerhouse. Like many other businesses in the industry, we’ve had to adjust to the unique shifts in people’s behaviors and preferences, almost all of which result from the rise in streaming. We […]
GCP – How State of Arizona is getting thousands back to work with VAST
When the world was forced to go primarily online, state governments also faced the reality of needing to provide community services without the health risk of meeting in person. Old systems that relied on interpersonal contact could not keep up. An unprecedented number of displaced workers swamped every unemployment system. The capacity challenges weren’t limited […]
GCP – Google Cloud and NSF continue support for research at Minority-Serving Institutions
Google Cloud is proud to be supporting the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion (CISE-MSI) program for a second year. As the first cohort of award recipients launches, we are delighted to extend our support by again offering matching Google Cloud research credits to Principal Investigators (PIs) […]